Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Quotations
Music
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Complete Poems"
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die
-Paul Simon
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
-Leopold Stokowski
The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.
-Jodi Picoult
"Sing You Home"
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
-Johann Sebastian Bach
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
